---
title: 1 Samuel 20:31 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.' · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.' Who acts: you, son. 1 Samuel 20:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.609/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/20/) / [20:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.31/) / JPS 2

# 1 Samuel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, son · **What happens:** send, fetch, deserve, die · **To what, where:** son

<!-- .vabout -->
This is 1 Samuel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1SA:609
# text = Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	deserveth	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | wherefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | son |  |  |  | unto me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **deserve** | present | son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
כִּ֣י כָל־הַיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בֶּן־יִשַׁי֙ חַ֣י עַל־הָאֲדָמָ֔ה לֹ֥א תִכּ֖וֹן אַתָּ֣ה וּמַלְכוּתֶ֑ךָ וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁלַ֨ח וְקַ֤ח אֹתוֹ֙ אֵלַ֔י כִּ֥י בֶן־מָ֖וֶת הֽוּא׃ס

[1 Samuel 20:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.31/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. [For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.608/)
2. **Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'**

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:609` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [1 Samuel 20:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.608/)
- next →: [1 Samuel 20:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.610/)
- ↑ back to [1 Samuel 20:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.31/)